Our faith is being tested to the limits

Our faith right now is being tested to the limits. On February 5, we will officially be illegal in the country of Mexico, and so, are scrambling to get ourselves and our two vehicles to the border to renew the six-month visas. However, we have been so enveloped with our love for the people in Toltecas and Baciroa and Tapizuela and El Paso that we have spent enormous amounts of gasoline to visit the villages on a weekly basis. The result is that before we knew what happened, we have run out of money!

Our spirits are high. The Lord knows what we need. So we know that he will provide what we need. We have just enough money to get ourselves to Tucson. What we don´t have is enough money to get back to Mexico, and that is what is teraing us apart in our hearts.

God has placed such a love and burden over us for these people that we cannot pull ourselves away. We are praying that he make every way possible for us to not have to work in the states to come back to Mexico. It is our desire to go to the states and return immediately so that we are not separated from the work that God is doing here.

Please pray. Pray with your family. Pray with your congregation. Please pray for us. And if God prompts you to assist us financially, please heed that calling. Often, people tell us that they did not send $10 or $20 to us because they felt it was an insignificant contribution and were waiting for the Lord to provide more. Please, if this thought is in your mind, flee from it! To one who comes from an American or European lifestyle, that $10 may seem a measly chump of change. But here in Mexico, $10 can easily feed us for an entire week!

Please lift us up, brothers and sisters, in your prayers. It is a commandment of the Bible to obey the laws of man whenever those laws do not contradict God´s laws, because God has allowed those lawmakers to be over us. Therefore, even on our last peny, we will return to the fronteir and renew our visas so that we remain legal visitors to Mexico. Please pray that God will provide all the funds necessary to return swiftly back home and continue the ministry there.